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Humble Musing: AIDS in Afghanistan
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Monday, August 4, 2008. According to the Chicago Tribune, the fall of the Taliban coincided with a rise in AIDS. There was an increase in the use of needle drugs as Afghanistan started producing its own heroin, and the refugees returning from Pakistan and Iran sometimes brought it with them. On AIDS under the Taliban:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the Baath Party archives. Dinosaurs and development in Abu Dhabi. On Amal Legal Group. Islam Awareness Week in Wellington, NZ.
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Humble Musing: February 2008
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Because women aren't people. David Gelernter, a professor of not English and not Linguistics but of Computer Science at Yale, has a brilliant piece. In the Weekly Standard. About the way that feminists have ruined the English language by campaigning for the use of words like 'chairperson' and pronouns like 's/he'. The whole thing is quite angry and, in my opinion, unnecessarily so. But one of my favorite parts is below:. Thursday, February 14, 2008. Here is the text. On Slate ...
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Humble Musing: on the Baath Party archives
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008. On the Baath Party archives. Has an op-ed in the LA Times. Calling for the return of the Baath Party archives to Baghdad. (They were taken/saved by Kanan Makiya. I think Weiner oversimplifies the dilemma in his discussion. He says the archives belong in Iraq because Iraqis need to know their own history in order to reconstruct their society as something better. True. But Makiya clearly feels that way as well. His foundation, the Iraqi Memory Foundation. On Amal Legal Group.
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Humble Musing: July 2008
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Sunday, July 20, 2008. Nellie McKay on feminists and their absence of a sense of humor. Archive trolling at abu aardvark. This past April Marc Lynch aka Abu Aardvark gave a talk at GWU on jazz diplomacy . at an event that honored Dave Brubeck's contributions. Here is the text of his talk. His talk is an argument for hip-hop diplomacy in the same vein, and recounts some of the successes that have already been realized using that model. Amazing! Tuesday, July 8, 2008. For all of us. Monday, July 7, 2008.
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Humble Musing: Islam Awareness Week in Wellington, NZ
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Sunday, August 3, 2008. Islam Awareness Week in Wellington, NZ. This rundown of Islam(ic) Awareness Week's fashion show. Is a little curious. It hits the obvious Islamic-fashion notes, such as burkinis and hooded tae kwon doe uniforms, which enable women to dress in a way that makes them comfortable while doing sports. Very feel-good. Then they print this dress code:. Dress codes for Muslim women:. Clothing must cover the whole body apart from the face, hands and feet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Humble Musing: January 2008
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Thursday, January 24, 2008. Huckabee isn't the only one who's crazy. The following was taken from the Wikipedia entry on Ibn Baaz, the former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia:. Between 1993 and 1995, various newspapers and magazines published accounts that ibn Baaz, whose duties included the presidency of the administration for scientific research, had said that the Earth is flat. It's not as if evolution is really up for debate among people who examine those sorts of things, and the argument that it's a "the...
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Humble Musing: dinosaurs and development in Abu Dhabi
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Monday, August 4, 2008. Dinosaurs and development in Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, a government agency established in 2005 "to harness the pride of the people of the UAE through the development of its cultural heritage, and to be the leading cultural development organisation in the region," has done some amazing things in the recent past. To those of you who were preschool geeks, as I was, this one will have particular resonance: ADACH obtained a dinosaur skeleton. Less tha...
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Humble Musing: December 2007
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Monday, December 17, 2007. Wise words from Jordan. I came across an old editorial from the Jordan Times. Today discussing the mystery of women not supporting women in elections. Why, when women are half the population or more almost everywhere and (often the more civic-ly engaged half) do we need a quota? Walid Sadi says it is because Jordanian society places men on a pedestal, so that even women think they are more qualified than their female competitors. Sunday, December 16, 2007. Do those two branches...
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Humble Musing: OFFICIALLY UNEMPLOYED
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Sunday, August 3, 2008. And now a student! Now broadcasting from Tucson, Arizona. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men." -Middlemarch. On the Baath Party archives. Dinosaurs and development in Abu Dhabi. On Amal Legal Group. Islam Awareness Week in Wellington, NZ. Law firms moving to Abu Dhabi.
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Humble Musing: law firms moving to Abu Dhabi
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Sunday, August 3, 2008. Law firms moving to Abu Dhabi. The "latest emirate to become fashionable." (Wasn't it only Dubai that preceded Abu Dhabi in terms of 'fashionable emirates? I would be curious to know how much this reporter knows of Umm al Quwain, for example.) The Times (of London). Reports that many reputable London law firms are opening offices in Abu Dhabi, including Clifford Chance, the world's biggest (by revenue). It's certainly not front page news that oil prices are rising and OPEC. There ...